The Gospel = “A Calling Out” into Separation

Jacob’s Salvation

1)A Calling Out: Separation Continued

My reader, I hope that you are
beginning to understand God’s clear message, how that separation and holiness
is vital for The Church! Without exception, the once born men are at enmity, in
hatred against, and divided from those that are twice born, so that if the two
were not separatedthen salvation would be discontinued, thwarted, and voided. The
union (yoking, fellowship, communion, concord, or companionship) of these two
companies is sure damnation for both, and this union, contrary to popular
opinion, can never result in the salvation of the damned individuals (except
for by the sovereign intervention of God for an extra-biblical act of mercy)!

My reader, just as Isaac was called…
so was Jacob. The word “call” signifies the act of salvation which results from
sovereign election according to Romans 9:10-13, an application which is but a
greater commentary on former verses which stated this concept in Old Testament
Church History (i.e. Isaiah 48:12 & 15).

“And not
only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father
Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or
evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works,
but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve
the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated”
(Romans 9:10-13).

“Hearken
unto Me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am He; I am the first, I also
am the last.” (Isa. 48:12)

“I have called
him” (Isa. 48:15).

“And
Jacob went out…” (Gen. 28:10).

Just as
Abraham was “called out” and thus he went out in separationfrom
Terah, and just as Isaac was “called out” by God and Ishmael was “cast out” into separationfrom The Church, Jacob had his own “calling out”
into a wilderness experience resulting in much tribulation (and, notably, just
before Jacob was literally “called out by God”, Esau was rejected by God).
Can we be sure that Jacob was “called out” to become a continuation of
what we understand to be The Church, my reader? Just after Jacob obeyed the
call of God he found himself in the place that he called, “The House of God”
(“Beth-el” in Hebrew), with angels ascending and descending in his very
presence! He said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the
House of God, and this is the gate of Heaven” (Gen. 28:17)! Esau demonstrated
that he was not worthy to be numbered among “the called” in that he
refused to “come out from among” what is abominable in God’s sight (he engaged
in forbidden unions with unsaved foreigners). The sense of God’s grief can be
heard in the words of Esau’s mother, Rebekah. “And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am
weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these which are the daughters of the Land, what good
shall my life do me” (Gen. 27:46)? God’s call can be seen in the brisk actions
of his father, Isaac.

“And
Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him,
Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. ARISE, GO TO Padan-aram…And God Almighty bless thee, and
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of
people; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with
thee; that thou mayest inherit the Land wherein thou art a stranger, which God
gave unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he
went…” - Gen. 28:1-5

You see,
“Jacob obeyed his father and his mother” (Gen. 28:7), parents who existed
as ambassadors of the Lord’s calling, but Esau did, long before this,
disqualify himself from the calling of God through an ungodly union to what God called The Church in separation from. It was written, “And Esau was
forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite,
and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto
Isaac and to Rebekah” (Genesis 26:34-35). Esau was careless and rebellious to
God’s call of separation, therefore Esau was
a cast awayand Jacob was acalled out one!
Esau mixedwith
God-rejected persons to his own destruction, and Jacob “went out” unto Padan-aram for union with
God-receivable persons unto his salvation (Gen. 28:10)! My reader, do you think
God is arguing something significant with these reoccurring similarities?

Shockingly,
Esau is used by the inspired writer of Hebrews as an example of a twice-born
backslider, a forewarning to all true believers in Christ. Esau didn’t follow
“holiness”, contrary to the exhortation given in Hebrews 12:14 (“holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord”). Like Samson was slowly corrupted
by the forbidden union he had with Delilah (a strange woman of the
Philistines), Esau was corrupted by “the daughters of Heth” from the Land of
Canaan (Gen. 27:46). As a consequence of Esau’s unrestrained lusts he was led
into acts fornication with these strange women, acts which led into marriages
with them, no doubt, otherwise he would not have been called a “fornicator” in
Hebrews 12:16. Esau fell-a-lusting after these women, married them, and was
deceived to think he would not be corrupted by their evil conduct,
notwithstanding, the scripture warns, “Be not deceived: evil communications
corrupt good manners” (1 Cor. 15:33). Many people today are deceived to think
that forbidden unions with what God commands separation from will never lead to
personal damnation. And yet, “Did not Solomon King of Israel sin by these
things? Yet among many nations was there no King like him, who was beloved of
his God, and God made him King over all Israel: nevertheless even him did
outlandish women cause to sin” (Neh. 13:26). It is written that “Solomon loved
the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father” (1 Kings 3:3), but after
evil communications corrupted his good manners, it was written, “his wives
turned away his heart” (1 Kings 11:3-6). Could this be what happened to Esau?

Esau is
set forth as an example to true believers, those to whom belongs the inheritance
of the Kingdom of God and the blessing of Abraham via birthright (Gal.
4:28-31, Gal. 3:14, 1Cor. 6:9-10, Gal. 6:19-21, Eph.
5:5), and Esau was reprobated in that he “sold his birthright” in
Genesis 25:27-34. Esau “despised his birthright” (Gen. 25:34) like the
backsliding Israelites were compelled so to do because their hearts turned back
to Egypt (“they despised the pleasant Land” – Ps. 106:24). According to
the contextual argument of Hebrews 12:1-17, the place from which Esau fell is
clear and the interpretation sure: he lost his birthright to heaven! He had it…
and then he lost it (he lost his salvation!), and after it was lost it became
true to him what is written, “it is impossible…to renew them again unto
repentance” (Heb. 6:4-6). Like the reprobated Israelites of the Exodus
Generation who just lost their inheritance of the Promised Land, who sought a
renewal of repentance by mourning over their sin (“the people mourned
greatly”-Num.14:39, “we have sinned”-Num.14:40), even so Esau “found
no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears” (Heb. 12:17,
Gen. 27:34-41). “And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? Blessing me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice,
and wept” (Gen. 27:38)! At this notable conclusion we see a continuity of
argument heretofore: the physically circumcised and birthright inheritor of
Heaven, Esau, was justifiably turned into a castaway because he backslid from
the spiritual lineage of salvation begun in the spiritual seed of Abraham, the
true Jews, with the foremost evidence of his disqualification being manifest in
that he departed from keeping “the righteousness of the Law” by the power of
regeneration (an inward salvation in God by faith and through grace; Rom.
2:25-29).